Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites today, has major problems with the quality of applications being designed for their site. Most are pointless, many are buggy, few are good, and rare are the must haves. This problem might sort itself out with time, but right now it is a serious growing pain.

Finding sub-par quality applications on the Facebook site is a common theme these days. As frustrating and annoying as it is to navigate through the crap to find that hidden gem, you would think that the Facebook team would do something about it. That has yet to be seen.

A simple glance at the screen capture to the right will reveal some of the more crappy applications available on Facebook right now. Unfortunately, those are not even close to representing the worst that I have seen.

Adding to the frustration, many people install these applications, and I always question why. This only encourages those developers to put out more crap. If you are one of those people who have added the "Are you stupid?" application, then you truly are stupid; there is no avoiding that.

Innovation, skill, and common sense are some of the things that developers utilize to create great applications. I regrettably inform people that many application developers lack all of the aforementioned. It now even annoys me to look through the "newest" section in the application directory; it is just that bad.

I have repeatedly suggested to the Facebook development team some improvements that could be added to their system, but they seem pleased with the way things are going. However, I believe that their carelessness will just make things worse in the long term. It would be extremely disappointing to see one of Facebook's greatest features end up becoming its worst. I sometimes question if that is not already beginning to happen.

I love to use Facebook (I use it on a daily basis), and there is hardly any serious threat to Facebook right now, but there are many improvements that need to be made to the system. MySpace is suffering from a lack of innovation and improvements. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's owner, could easily take Facebook down that same path if he becomes complacent.